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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
Our intention in making this extract has not been so much to 
submit any description of an exhibition, which, most probably, 
many or most of our readers have visited, as to set forth the 
opinions of an authority standing so high in public estimation on 
the advantages that have been, or promise to be, derived from 
it. Viewing the animal exhibited as an article it is the desi- 
deratum to produce of the best quality at the smallest possible 
cost, the question of production resolves itself into breeding 
on the one hand, and feeding on the other. Looking to the 
purpose for which the animal is bred or brought into existence, 
that breed is entitled to the most encouragement whose offspring 
evinces the greatest aptitude to accumulate flesh or fat in the 
quickest time, from the smallest consumption of food, or from 
food of the least costly description ; thus making the business 
of the breeder subservient to that of the feeder, the merit 
derivable from the quality or quantity of the product being 
fairly divisible between the two. An unthriving animal falls 
short of perfection under the most judicious and luxuriant feed- 
ing, while the most kindly disposed likewise fails of success 
under improper or innutritious feeding. Thus the breeder and 
feeder are inseparably linked together in their work, though their 
occupations very properly form two distinct branches of the 
science of agriculture. Notwithstanding the main object of the 
breeder, however, must be to produce that which will thrive and 
do best in the hands of the feeder, he will have other considera- 
tions to study. It will not answer his purpose to go to such 
expense for his production as will preclude him from deriving 
fair and sufficient profit by its sale ; no more than it will to 
bring an animal into the market worth no feeder’s notice. He 
will take care to steer clear of both these errors, while he never 
loses sight of that which directs the steps of every man in trade, 
viz. that he must so conduct his business as to make it a source 
of profit to him. He not only has to breed, but he has also to 
rear his progeny ; and here his success in production, together 
with the expenses attending it, must very much depend upon 
circumstances of situation, soil, climate, & c. In districts where 
waste lands and common rights abound, the cost of rearing will 
be small, compared to what it amounts to in other parts of the 
country ; but, then, the offspring upon such uncultivated and for 
